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School: An Mhainistir, Malla (roll number 12519)

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Mallow, Co. Cork
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An Bráthair Lúcás
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0369, Page 530

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    The robin is supposed to have tried to pick the thorns out of our Saviour's head when He was dying on the cross. As he was doing this a drop of our Saviour's Blood is supposed to have fallen on his breast. Hence the red breast.
    The swallow is supposed to have got his forked tail from a bite he got from a snake. One day he was sitting on a branch of a tree when a snake came behind him and bit him on the tail.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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    Topics
    1. agents (~1)
      1. animal-lore (~1,185)
        1. bird-lore (~2,478)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    E. Carroll
    Address
    Mallow, Co. Cork